If you seek to carry no other crosses but those whose reason you understand, perfection is not for you.
TERESA OF AVILATruth suffers, but never dies.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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The important thing is not to think much but to love much; do, then, whatever most arouses you to love.
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God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
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It is of great importance, when we begin to practise prayer, not to let ourselves be frightened by our own thoughts.
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How friendly we should all be with one another if nobody were interested in money and honor.
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Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.
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There seem to me a great many blessings which come from true poverty and I should be sorry to be deprived of them.
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God deliver me from people who are so spiritual that they want to turn everything into perfect contemplation, come what may.
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All things pass; Patience attains all it strives for.
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Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.
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Much more is accomplished by a single word of the Our Father said, now and then, from our heart, than by the whole prayer repeated many times in haste and without attention.
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One always goes on as one begins.
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Let nothing disturb thee; Let nothing dismay thee; All things pass; God never changes. Patience attains All that it strives for.
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All times are dangerous times.
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Blessed be He, Who came into the world for no other purpose than to suffer.
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After you die, you wear what you are.
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